On Hog & Rocks: “I’d say that it’s a neighborhood bar designed by two guys who love to eat.” [SF Weekly]

From the national scene:

Pete Wells on Seersucker in Brooklyn, : “Seersucker, which opened this spring, is not a Northerner’s idea of a Southern restaurant. It’s urbane, soft-spoken and modern, the kind of place where actual residents of Chapel Hill, Nashville or Birmingham might go on a Saturday night.” [New York Times]